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the bear cannot bearto hear what the mouse has roaredcrushed under a paw ~ n.b. The bear grows in confidence, challenging the West to fight on ‘until the last Ukrainian.’ Cynical, callous, murderous, intent on forging ahead, knowing a line will have to be crossed, if not redrawn. The sign held by Mr Gorinov asks, →
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scorched earth policyblood and bone enrich the soilis this what it needs? ~ n.b. While the nonsense drags on in London, the senseless slaughter continues in Ukraine. Nobody wins. Day 133. CLP 06/07/2022 →
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on Ukraine
‘pyrrhic’ springs to mindwhen you make claims of ‘victory’no points, no prizes ~ CLP 04/07/2022 →
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on Ukraine
out on the weekendwe spend hours playing, shoppingwhile others wait still ~ CLP 02/07/2022 →
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meanwhile at the shopspeople queuing patiently there could be children ~ n.b. Somebody chose to programme two X-22 cruise missiles to destroy a busy shopping centre in Kremenchuk. Days later, anxious relatives of the missing watch and wait.n.n.b. The picture above is attributed to Alessio Mamo / The Guardian. It is a screen-shot from The →
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on Ukraine
watch the money flowsomeone is profiting hereUK ‘lethal aid’ ~ n.b. No pretence at anything ‘humanitarian’. The UK putting more money into the Ukrainian frontline from the Magic Money Tree. CLP 30/06/2022 →
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step by marching stepthree hundred thousand alertedold lines reappear ~ n.b. Who was it said, “Give peace a chance”? It was internal opposition to USA support for South Vietnam that contributed significantly to the end of that conflict. Will this only end when Russians turn on Putin? Meanwhile NATO calls its troops to “Attention!” on →
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coasts, rivers, contoursmove over millenniapaper-thin borders ~ CLP 15/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine
daily more losttwo hundred dead, eight hundred maimedmedia lose interest ~ CLP 14/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine xxvi
there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →
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